China will open the largest radio telescope in the world for research

China on Saturday officially launched the biggest radiotelescope in the world in the use of it, reported state news agency Xinhua. The device, which is the name of the FAST, has to China, to assist with space exploration and the search for possible extraterrestrial life.

The construction of the restaurant, covering an area the size of thirty football pitches, and has a diameter of about 500 meters, was completed in 2016. Over the past three years, the telescope was tested, but after Saturday's running at full capacity.

According to Xinhua, is a FAST, two times more sensitive than the largest radio telescope in the world. In Puerto Rico as a state. In the Chinese example, which is also referred to as the Eye of Heaven, it would be to be able to 38 gigabytes (GB) of information per second to be received.

the restaurant has been carved out of a mountain in the southern province of Guizhou. For the construction of the telescope had to be thousands and thousands of people to evacuate their homes, because the appliances of the people, for the signals of the FAST would be able to interfere with it. The construction cost was reportedly 1.2 billion Chinese yuan (almost 156 million euros).